Cenk Uygur
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Verizon Fios Twitter Stunt Fails Hilariously
Posted
February 9, 2013
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February 9, 2013
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5:16Now Playing"A new Verizon FiOS commercial encourages viewers to reach out to the three happy customers featured in the ad. The Twitter handles of the "longtime FiOS users" are displayed in the commercial to help with this process."*
Oh, Verizon. You should have known better. The company ran TV commercials telling people to ask real Fios customers questions on Twitter. So obviously, the questions were way off-topic and the campaign backfired spectacularly. Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore (TYT Comedy) and Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) break it down.
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